Roller-bearing.



No. 713,058. lIf'a'tened Nov. H, |902'.

.R. D. CAMP.

ROLLER BEARING.

(Application led July 27, 1900.) (No Model.)

.w w w UNITED STATES -PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT D. CAMP, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO MOFFETT BEARING COMPANY, OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.

ROLLER-BEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.7713,058, dated November-'11, 1902. Application led July 27. 1900.: Serial No. 24,971. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, ROBERT D. CAMP, a cit-ii zen of the United States, residing at Chicago,

county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Roller-Bearings, of`

Io My invention in roller-bearings is herein represented as embodied in connection withv a stationary journal and a rotatable box.

vMy invention relates more particularly tol a construction of journal and nut whereby the journal surrounded bya cage containing a roller-bearing may be materially shortened and the'bearing be consequently made more' compact. I have further provided the collar with a waterway whereby water falling upon zo the hub and collar may traverse the water` way and be discharged at the under side of the collar and axle. The neck of the nut is encircled by a chambered and hardened endthrust plate having a raceway for the reception of balls to overcome end thrust.

rear end-thrust plate besides having a raceway for balls is surrounded by a packing,`.

which constitutes a dust-guard, and a suitable spring acting expansively within the packing 3o forces the packing outwardly against theinterior of the box and prevents dust from er1-- tering the box to contact with the bearing` rollers and the surface of the journal over which said rollers travel. The arm or journal of the shaft has applied to it'steel tracks made as sleeves, over which the bearing-rollers of the traveling cage may roll, saidV tracks being separated, as herein shown, by spacing device, represented as a tube.

The drawing illustrates my invention in one of the best forms now known to me.

Referring to the drawing, A represents an axle having an arm or journal A', provided with a collar A2, represented as forged integral with the axle, said j ournalbeing provided at its outer end with a screw-threaded portion or tenon a. The arm or journal has applied to it two hardened-steel tracks ct' co2, separated by a spacing device, shown as tube a3. 5o The tracks ct a2 sustain a series, of bearingrollers b, contained in traveling cages B, I

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having illustrated two such cages, each cornposed of end walls united rigidly by suitable bars, as provided for in United States Patent No. 664,820, dated December 25, 1900, said cages containing at'intervals suitable or usual roller-supports b2, herein representedas spindles having their ends held in the cage ends, so that the spindles cannot rotate. The ends vof the rollers bare herein represented as chain- 6o bered to receive balls c, which contact with the chambered portions of said rollers and also with the spindles b2. For ease of mannfacture the cage may be made of soft steel, and to furnish ahard track or raceway against 6 5 which the balls mayrun in the planetarymotion of the rollers I may iuterpose at the inner sides of the cage ends and surrounding the spindles suitable steel washers c.

The box herein shown as surrounding the 7o journal and constituting part of the hub of the wheel is composed of two" parts D D', suitably bhambered to receive the cages B. The part Dl has a sleeve D2, suitably threaded to be engaged bya screw-threaded portion D3 7 5 of the part D, the sleeve D2 being screwed into the threaded portion D3 and causing the inner faces 2 and 3 of said portions to retain in usual manner the spokes used in the wheel, the parts D and D' being united firmly by suit- 8o able bolts (not shown) extended through the alined holes D4. Y The shoulder d' of the part D p and the shoulder d of the part D constitute each a cage-controller to coact with the inner ends of the cages B B as they slide lon- S5 gitudinally on the arm or journal; the opposite ends of the cage coacting with cage-controllers composed of ringsv d2 cl3, inserted, vrespectively, in the open ends of the parts D and D/ and against suitable shoulders and 5 there- 9o in. Preferably the rings d2 and d3 will be restrained from rotation in the box by means of suitable fastenings, which may be dowelpins d4. The distance between the adjacent faces of the cage-controllers is in excess of the length of the traveling cages B, so that 'the ends of said cages as they rotate in the direction of rotation of the box contact only at intervals with one or the othercontroller, according to variations in the road-bed on roo which the wheel containing the box is traveling, the ends of the cage as the latter. slides tering the box.

longitudinally of the axis of the journal being struck by one or the other controller moving with the box at a speed faster than that of the cage and returned into its substantially free running position between said controllers, as provided for in said patent.

The traveling cages carrying the bearingrollers are both alike, and each cage has like steel washers c', against which run the series of balls c, entering chambers in the end of the bearing-rollers l), said balls also contacting with the spindles b2.

The collar E, carried bythe axle and having an annular groove e, prevents water enrlhe groove e is enlarged at its inner end, as at e, to constitute a waterway, said waterway at the lower side of the plate being provided with an outlet e2. A projectionf from the inner end of the part D' of the box enters the groove c, while the projection f from the part D' of the box overlaps the periphery of the collar E. Water coming upon the box D or collar E and entering the space between the projection z5 f of the box and the collar E will be interrupted by the projection f, which is annular in shape, and the water will be diverted by centrifugal action from the end of said projection and into the waterway e. A part of the collar A2 inside the collar E is herein represented as surrounded by a chambered and hardened end-thrust plate F, having at its inner face an annular groovef2, which receives a series of balls f3, retained therein in suitable manner, as by an annular washer 10, the balls in said groove running against the ring d3 and resisting the end thrust of the inner end of the box. To resist the end thrust at the outer end of the box, I have provided the nut fT with a hardened-steel endthrust plate f6, that sustains suitable antifriction means, as balls f5, said end-thrust plate surrounding` the inwardlyextended flangefl of a nutf, having an internal screwthread to engage the threaded projection ct of the journal. The balls f5 are interposed between said end-thrust plate]c6 and the outer face of the ring cl2, located at the outer end of the portion D of the box.

The end-thrust plate F has an annular groove in its circumference, in which is placed a spring g, a packing g being thereafter inserted to till the groove and surround and compress said spring. The spring g is of such size and such construction that when the packing is applied in the groove outside of the spring the spring is somewhat compressed, which gives to it a tendency to expand, which causes the outer face of the packing to contact firmly with the interior of the box and also with the side walls of the groove in which the packing is contained, said packing acting to prevent the entrance of dust into the box to interfere with the running of the bearing-rollers about the journals. The nut f7, which maybe of cast metal, has a tubular sleeve f1 long enough to extend through the ring d2 at the end of the part D of the box and to enter the space at the center of the right-hand end wall of the traveling cage B nearest the end of the journal, said nut inside said cage abutting, preferably, the outer end of the annular track a2 and retaining it against longitudinal movement, said cage in its sliding movement passing over and about the portion f4 of the nut. Usually the nut applied to a journal to retain a box thereonfor good construction has its threaded surface uniting the nut and journal equal in length to the diameter of the threaded part at the end of the journal and upon which the nut is screwed; but it will be seen that by providing the nut with the extended p0rtion f4 of a length suticient to enter the box the length of the journal from the collar A2 to the end of the threaded portion a may be lessened by a distance equal to the length that the sleeve f4 extends from the inner side of the plate f6, and any reduction ofthe length of the journal without sacrificing its strength is of material moment not only in saving of stock, but also in reducing the width `of the vehicle.

To further provide for excluding dust from the bearing the nut f7 and the outer end of the journal are incased dust-tight by a cap H, threaded at its inner end to embrace a threaded portion at the outer end of the part D of the box.

The invention herein described is not limited to making the two parts of the box exactly as represented in the drawing. i

In practice the journal A ta pers and is made smaller in portions toward the nut-receiving end, and to provide for maintaining the sleeves or tracks a' a2 at dierent levels and insure that the ends of the sleeve a3 properly coact with the sleeves or tracks a a2 I provide a washer 8, which may be of steel, it

.being met by one end of the tube a3, the interposition of the washer between the track and sleeve enabling the tracks and tube a3 to coact, although of different diameters.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a bearing, a box, an open ring at its outer end, a journal having a threaded nutreceiving end extended beyond the outer end of said box, a nut screwed upon the threaded end of said journal and an end-thrust plate, said nut entering the central opening of said ring and retaining the hub on the journal, and antifriction means interposed between the said ring and end-thrust plate.

2. In a bearing, a box having near its outer end a shoulder, an open-centered detachable ring, a journal having a threaded end extended beyond the outer end of said box, a traveling cage surrounding said journal, and bearing-rollers, said cage and rollers rotating between said box and journal, an end-thrust plate and a nut screwed upon the outer end of said journal, said nut having at its inner ICO IIO

4:.. In a bearing, a box, a detachable ring atits end, a journal surroundedby said box and threaded at its end to receive a nut, a nut'se-l cured thereon, an end-thrust plate surrounding said nut, and antifriction devices interposed between said ring and endthrust plate, said nut being extended through said ring and entering said box.

5. In a bearing, a journal having a collar, an annularly-grooved end-thrust plate .surrounding said journal at the inner side of said collar, a box, a detachable ring in the end of said box next` said end-thrust plate, and a series of balls interposed between said ring andv end-thrust plate and guided by said groove.

6. In a bearing, a journal having a collar, and provided at its outer end with a threaded tenon, a box surrounding said journaland a ring at each end of the box, a nutapplied to said tenon, an end-thrust plate surrounding the journal at the inner side of said collar, and series of balls interposed between the outer faces of the rings at the outer ends of said box, and the faces of said end-thrust plates contiguous to said rings to operate substantially as described.

7. In a bearing, a journal having a collar provided at its inner face with an annular groove having an enlarged waterway, said waterway having an outlet at the under side of the collar.

S. In a bearing, a journal having a collar provided at its inner face with an annular groove having a connected and enlarged waterway provided with an outlet for water, combined with a box having at its end a iiange to enter said annular groove.

9. ln a bearing, a journal having a collar provided at its inner face with an annular groove having a connected and enlarged waterway provided with an outlet for water, combined with a box having at its end a projection to enter said annular groove, and also a flange overlapping the periphery of said collar. j

l0. In a roller-bearing, a journal, a surrounding box separable between its ends, a

stationary and a removable cage-controller at opposite sides the transverse center of said box, and a traveling cage in each part of said box, bearing-rollers for said cages, and means carried by said journal and acting against said removable cage-controllers t'o retain said box on said journal.

11. Ina roller-bearing, a journal, a collar provided with an annular groove cut in one side thereof, said groove being enlarged at its inner end to constitute a waterway, an endthrust plate located at the grooved side of said collar and containinga series of balls, a packing surrounding saidend-thrust plate externally, combined with a box, a ring d3 in the end of the box to contact with the balls referred to, said box having two flanges one entering the annular groove referred to, and the other encircling the end-thrust plate aS and for the purpose set forth.

12. A metallic box composed of two parts, each part having an external flange and two internal shoulders, said parts being'provided with screw-threads to determine the distance of said external flanges one from the other, a plurality of traveling cages having. bearingrollers, the internal shoulders of the box nearest said external flanges acting as cage-controllers forthe inner ends of said cages, rings applied detachably in said box and sustained by the shoulder nearest the ends of the box, antifriction means acting against the outer v,faces of said rings to position the box on the journal, a cap applied to the outer endof said box and covering the end of said journal, and means applied to said journal at the inner end of said box to exclude dust vand water from the interior of said box.-

InV testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT D. CAMP.

Witnesses z G. E. AMES, H. O. REILLY. 

